Ahmed Nuriye, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry
Woodland, 226

Selected awards, grants, other honors

Dalalian Graduate Fellowship Award in Organic Chemistry, Penn State University
Dan H. Waugh Memorial Teaching Award, Penn State University
Rochester Section of the American Chemical Society Achievement Award, SUNY Brockport
Sigma Xi Award for Research in Chemistry, SUNY Brockport

I am interested in the development of novel methods for organic syntheses and in the synthesis and characterization of organic molecules to shed light on their structures and properties.

Penk, D. N.; Endres, E. J.; Nuriye, A. Y.; Macdonald, J. E. Dependence of Transition-Metal Telluride Phases on Metal Precursor Reactivity and Mechanistic Implications. Inorg. Chem. 2023, 62 (9), 3947–3956. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c04342.

Nuriye, A. Y.; Barr, J. Iodine-Promoted Oxidative Homocoupling of Methyl 2-Arylacetates under Equilibrium Conditions Using Potassium Tert-Butoxide as a Base. Results Chem. 2022, 4, 100407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rechem.2022.100407.

Robinson, E. H.; Dwyer, K. M.; Koziel, A. C.; Nuriye, A. Y.; Macdonald, Janet. E. Synthesis of Vulcanite (CuTe) and Metastable Cu 1.5 Te Nanocrystals Using a Dialkyl Ditelluride Precursor. Nanoscale. 2020, 12 (45), 23036–23041. https://doi.org/10.1039/D0NR06910H.

Nuriye, A. Y.; Craescu, C. V. Total Synthesis of Cinncassin A 1. J. Heterocycl. Chem.  2020, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1002/jhet.3973.

Yennawar, H. P.; Silverberg, L. J.; Cannon, K.;  Gandla, D.; Kondaveeti, S. K.; Zdilla, M. J.; Nuriye, A. Crystal structures of two 1,3-thiazolidin-4-one derivatives featuring sulfide and sulfone functional groups, Acta Crystallogr. E, 2018, 74, 1695–1699.

Nuriye, A. Y.; Yennawar, H.; Cannon, K.; Tierney, J. Crystal structures of two thiazolidinone derivatives bearing a trichloromethyl substituent at the 2-position, Acta Crystallogr. E, 2018, 74, 1509-1512.

Feldman, K. S.; Nuriye, A. Y.; Li, J. Extending Pummerer Reaction Chemistry: Studies in the Palau’amine Synthesis Area, J. Org. Chem., 2011, 76, 5042–5060.

Feldman, K. S.; Nuriye, A. Y. Extending the Pummerer reaction: Application to the assembly of the pentacyclic core of dibromopalau’amine, Org. Lett., 2010, 12, 4532 – 4535.

Feldman, K. S.; Nuriye, A. Y. Extending the Pummerer reaction: Examination of the prospects for forming vicinal quaternary carbon centers, Tetrahedron Lett., 2009, 50, 1914 – 1916.

Ph D, Organic Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University

BS, Chemistry, The State University of New York Brockport

Organic Chemistry I -CHEM 210
Organic Chemistry II -CHEM 212
Laboratory in Organic Chemistry –CHEM 213
Experimental Chemistry I –CHEM 111